A thirteen-year-old boy with severe autism was able to speak and sing for the first time after receiving Deep Brain Stimulation. Researchers at the University of Cologne, Germany, implanted two electrodes deep into the boy’s brain and stimulated various parts of the brain. The boy’s behavior improved dramatically. By age three, the boy started hurting [...]
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Jonathan Izak’s experience of growing up with a younger brother with autism is not just a set of memories but a motivation to help others with autism. The young entrepreneur developed an iPad app called AutisMate to help autistic children communicate by using pictures, audio and video sourced from the child’s own environment. This relieves [...]
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A New Zealand boy with severe autism can now communicate requests to play, eat or go to the bathroom clearly because of his father’s iPad app, Communicate Easy. Ciaran (pronounced keer’-en) Lewis is seven years old but does not talk and needs help getting dressed and using the toilet. His father, Wayne Lewis, decided to [...]
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The Autism Alliance of Michigan is rolling out a statewide program to help families keep track of their autistic child through the use of the Eyez-On EZ100 Personal Emergency Notifier and GPS tracker. Parents can set up any number of zones that the wearer is allowed to be in or not be in, and if [...]
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Feeling snug as a bug in a rug, or a vest in this case, could be the key to people who suffer from sensory overload. So thinks Lisa Fraser, the 24-year-old inventor of the Snug Vest for people with autism. Many autistic people do not like to be touched but they still need pressure on [...]
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An app called MySocius is helping parents teach their child with autism how to ask for an object or activity. Using the app, the parent takes pictures of the child’s favorite activities and objects. Activities could include playing outdoors or eating and objects can be foods or toys. Once the gallery has enough pictures, the [...]
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An app called Training Faces has been helping people with autism recognize basic facial emotions. It was released in May 2012 and has been downloaded thousands of times. The game helps with three areas: Recognition of one of nine emotions The meaning behind the emotion The speed at which the individual can interpret the emotion [...]
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In 1991, Dr. Ron Minson was looking for a solution to his daughter’s dyslexia. She was struggling at work and dealing with deep depression. He found it in the form of sound therapy, developed by a French doctor in Europe. He was so impressed with his daughter’s success that he studied with the inventor and [...]
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The Integrated Listening System utilizes music to help children with autism and other special needs. Here is one example of how it was used successfully: Please click here for story.
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I recently read an article from someone saying that video games are not good for kids with autism. Her take on this was that it isolates the children even more than they already are. She also said it leads to obsession with video games. I wondered how much interaction she had with autistic kids. Does [...]
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